PierianDx announced today that six leading healthcare systems and academic medical centers have chosen its leading “One Space” genomics software solution, CGW, to streamline clinical lab workflow, analysis, interpretation and reporting. More than 40 members of the PierianDx Partner Sharing Network utilize the shared constitutional and somatic genomic data within CGW to target patient-specific diagnosis […]

GenetiSure Dx Postnatal Assay Can Help Move Inquiries from Cause to Care Faster SANTA CLARA, Calif. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) has introduced its first comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) assay for diagnostic use: the GenetiSure Dx Postnatal Assay. This assay will enable clinical geneticists to detect genetic anomalies earlier and more accurately than traditional methods […]

– David Roth appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) – Pilar de la Huerta continues to serve as Co-CEO and is appointed Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) – SYGNIS realigns its management to further accelerate growth Madrid, Spain, and Heidelberg, Germany – SYGNIS AG (Frankfurt: LIO1; ISIN: DE000A1RFM03; Prime Standard) today announced that the Supervisory Board […]

Camarillo, CA –Hygiena, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company that specializes in rapid food safety and environmental sanitation testing, today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of DuPont Diagnostics, the global food safety diagnostics business of DuPont. The business was originally formed in 1992 as Qualicon. Hygiena will now sell the former DuPont Diagnostics products […]

Austria – Today Lexogen, a transcriptomics and next generation sequencing company, announces the start of its RNA-Seq service, which focuses on gene expression profiling using Lexogen’s proprietary QuantSeq technology. Lexogen’s QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit has already been recognized as one of the fastest, most cost-efficient, and accurate methods for expression profiling using next […]

Financing led by ARCH Venture Partners with the largest investment by Johnson & Johnson Innovation; includes additional strategic industry and venture investors GRAIL plans a second close with institutional investors to bring the total raised in the Series B to over $1 billion MENLO PARK, Calif. — GRAIL, Inc., a life sciences company whose mission […]

Mountain View, CA—Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. (“TBUSH”) announced that it has completed the acquisition of WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (“WaferGen”), WaferGen has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of TBUSH as of February 28, 2017 (US local time). Under the merger agreement executed with WaferGen, TBUSH paid 35.9 million US dollars to acquire 100% of the equity […]

NEW YORK — Phosphorus, a computational genomics and clinical genetic testing company, announced today the formation of the Phosphorus Scientific Advisory Board, an established group of medical and science experts chosen to advise the company on the development of new products and the company’s large-scale, multi-site research initiatives. “We’ve gathered some of the top leaders in […]

SHANGHAI, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and REYKJAVIK, Iceland — WuXi NextCODE, a WuXi AppTec group company and the contract genomics organization enabling precision medicine worldwide, today announced that the company’s chief operating officer Hannes Smarason has been appointed as the company’s chief executive officer, and WuXi AppTec senior vice presidents John Long and Alex Fowkes have been named […]

Shenzhen, China– Recently, BGI announced that Dr. Leroy Hood, a world renowned scientist and genomics pioneer, has joined the company’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Hood, a pioneer in the systems approach to biology and medicine, is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology and senior vice president and chief scientific officer of Providence […]